Boot failure

demonbrawn · Sep 17, 2006

Well, my fiance's laptop is struggling lately. Now, it won't even boot properly. When you power it on, it goes through the Windows loading bars, but after it does that it hits a blank, blue screen and then restarts. It does this over and over and over again and never finishes the boot process. Any thoughts?

zekrahminator · Sep 17, 2006

Tons. When I had this happen to me, it turned out my RAM was dead as a doornail. See if you can get a new kit of RAM for that laptop. If not that, then that motherboard has decided to crap out, and you need an entirely new laptop (sorry). It could also be a general configuration issue...repairing Windows might do the trick, but it's far more likely you have a dead RAM issue.

demonbrawn · Sep 17, 2006

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that I've already tried starting in safe mode after pressing F8. That didn't work either. I figured somebody would probably say that. The only other cheap option I can think of is finding the Windows XP disc and trying to boot from that and selecting repair partition or something. She has all these files that she needs for her Education Major Portfolio that she needs to turn in when she graduates, so this is quite the urgent issue if you can imagine.........

zekrahminator · Sep 17, 2006

Definitely, you need to swap out the RAM. I've had the same issue as you dude, a gig of Mushkin solved the problem immediately. I had multiple issues at that time...SATA2 controller died, causing the motherboard to have cold boots, and bad memory was causing bluescreens. Hooray...anyways. Go buy yourself some Mushkin and be done with your RAM problems

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xylomn · Sep 17, 2006

I agree, I've had the same problem in the past, turned out to be my RAM, replacing it fixed all the problems.

System Name	Sony Vaio - VGNFW390-CTO
Processor	Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T9550 (2.66GHz)
Cooling	Stock
Memory	4GB DDR2-SDRAM (DDR2-800, 2GBx2)
Video Card(s)	ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3650 with 512MB vRAM (pitiful card)
Storage	320GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [7200 rpm]
Display(s)	LCD 16.4" (XBRITE-FullHD™)
Audio Device(s)	SupremeFX
Software	Windows 7

Processor	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430
Cooling	Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU
Memory	2GB G.Skill DDR2 800
Video Card(s)	Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600
Storage	WD 160 GB SATA hard drive.
Display(s)	Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900
Case	Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window).
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers).
Power Supply	ThermalTake 430W TR2
Software	XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1.

System Name	Sony Vaio - VGNFW390-CTO
Processor	Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T9550 (2.66GHz)
Cooling	Stock
Memory	4GB DDR2-SDRAM (DDR2-800, 2GBx2)
Video Card(s)	ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3650 with 512MB vRAM (pitiful card)
Storage	320GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [7200 rpm]
Display(s)	LCD 16.4" (XBRITE-FullHD™)
Audio Device(s)	SupremeFX
Software	Windows 7

Processor	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430
Cooling	Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU
Memory	2GB G.Skill DDR2 800
Video Card(s)	Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600
Storage	WD 160 GB SATA hard drive.
Display(s)	Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900
Case	Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window).
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers).
Power Supply	ThermalTake 430W TR2
Software	XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1.

Processor	AMD Ryzen 5900X
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550M Mortar WiFi
Cooling	Corsair H100i RGB Platinum SE 240mm
Memory	32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3600MHz
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Vega 64 8GB
Storage	Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB / ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB / Crucial MX500 1TB
Display(s)	Dell U2715
Case	Corsair 280X
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder Chroma
Keyboard	Ducky One2 Horizon
Software	Windows 10 Professional
Benchmark Scores	Cinemark r23 Multicore: 22280

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